Price, LC;
Peiris, HV;
Frazer, J;
Easther, R;
(2015)
Gravitational Wave Consistency Relations for Multifield Inflation.
Physical Review Letters
, 114
, Article 031301. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.031301.
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Abstract
We study the tensor spectral index n t and the tensor-to-scalar ratio r in the simplest multifield extension to single-field, slow-roll inflation models. We show that multifield models with potentials V ∼ ∑ i λ i | ϕ i | p have different predictions for n t / r than single-field models, even when all the couplings are equal λ i = λ j , due to the probabilistic nature of the fields’ initial values. We analyze well-motivated prior probabilities for the λ i and initial conditions to make detailed predictions for the marginalized probability distribution of n t / r . With O ( 100 ) fields and p > 3 / 4 , we find that n t / r differs from the single-field result of n t / r = − 1 / 8 at the 5 σ level. This gives a novel and testable prediction for the simplest multifield inflation models.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Gravitational Wave Consistency Relations for Multifield Inflation |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.031301 |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.031301 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
Keywords: | Science & Technology, Physical Sciences, Physics, Multidisciplinary, Physics, FLUX COMPACTIFICATIONS |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy |
URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1467847 |
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